The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for American autonomous vehicles, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense.

2025年2月1日 · The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground ...

2004年2月1日 · DARPA ran its pathbreaking Grand Challenge with the goal of spurring on American ingenuity to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies that could be applied to military requirements.

2014年3月13日 · At the break of dawn on March 13, 2004, 15 vehicles left a starting gate in the desert outside of Barstow, Calif., to make history in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a first-of-its-kind race to foster the development of self-driving ground vehicles.

It was DARPA's first major attempt to use a prize-based competition to attract novel performers and ideas and encourage collaboration across diverse fields. The first team to pass a series of qualification tests and then complete the course in less than the prescribed ten-hour time limit would receive a $1 million cash prize.

2017年8月3日 · On March 13, 2004, a gaggle of engineers and a few thousand spectators congregated outside a California dive bar to watch 15 self-driving cars speed across the Mojave Desert in the...

2017年11月10日 · The Darpa Grand Challenges did more than drive the invention of autonomous vehicles—they fostered a community that now leads the industry.

14 小时之前 · 2024 marked a significant milestone for the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry: the 20th anniversary of the DARPA Grand Challenge.This event sparked the modern era of self-driving technology.

2019年2月14日 · DARPA's Grand Challenges seek to jump-start innovation across a wide range of disciplines by linking up with universities and industry researchers.

This event was known as the DARPA Urban Challenge, which was held on November 3rd, 2007, at the former George AFB in Victorville, Calif. Here, teams were required to build an autonomous vehicle capable of driving in traffic and performing complex maneuvers such as merging, passing, parking and negotiating intersections.